Quote from: ICAlum16 on March 13, 2025, 09:28:19 AMDoes anyone know if there have been any FBS or FCS transfers into any of the LL teams? I feel like there are usually a few in any given offseason which I always find interesting. Curious if anyone is up to speed on this.

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Quote from: Greek Tragedy on April 15, 2025, 10:28:50 PMOther sites, including his own X account has him at 6'10"!

Yeah, I saw 6'8, 6'9, and 6'10. I went the lowest I guess to not oversell it.

I'll take the middle at 6'9," but after watching him multiple times (both in person and via streams,) he doesn't play anywhere close to his size in my opinion...  Likes to sit outside but doesn't have the footspeed to stay in front of wing type players.  I see him as a "project" type recruit where Lewis and company try to develop him and see if he can be productive as an upperclassmen.

QuoteAs hinted at earlier, it's expensive. Adding a $20 million revenue-sharing bill to an athletic department's budget is no small matter. Schools don't have to contribute the full amount—but even a modest $2.5 million payout has to come from somewhere. Combine that with the loss of walk-ons, and you're facing a double whammy.

Gone are the tuition, housing, and fees that walk-ons provided.

One administrator told me they expect 50 fewer student-athletes next year after opting in. They added, "We were always encouraged by the president's office to bring on walk-ons—they filled dorms and paid tuition and fees."

That same school estimates a loss of $19,000 per walk-on. Multiply that by 50, and it's close to a million-dollar hit.

A private FCS athletic director shared their concerns with me: "We're struggling to keep the lights on and pay our bills. Now we're expected to cut student-athletes and pay them?"

Oh, and that school's tuition is over $25,000. Do the math.

And as if that weren't enough, have you Googled the term enrollment cliff lately?

College leaders and athletics administrators are now asking the hard questions:

Who are we? What do we want to be? What are we trying to accomplish here?

Those are valuable conversations—and necessary for institutional alignment. However, these factors also lead to some tough decisions, especially in smaller public and private schools.

As I said at the beginning, it's just a numbers game.